SEARCH FOR NEUTRALINO DARK-MATTER HEAVIER THAN THE W-BOSON AT KAMIOKANDE

Citation
M. Mori et al., SEARCH FOR NEUTRALINO DARK-MATTER HEAVIER THAN THE W-BOSON AT KAMIOKANDE, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 48(12), 1993, pp. 5505-5518
Citations number
66
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
48
Issue
12
Year of publication
1993
Pages
5505 - 5518
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1993)48:12<5505:SFNDHT>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We have searched for possible high-energy neutrino signals which are e xpected from massive dark matter captured by the Earth and the Sun by making use of upward-going muon samples collected during 7 years of op eration of the Kamiokande detector. No excess of events was found from the Earth or the Sun, thus giving an excluded range of parameters for the neutralino dark matter which is hypothesized to constitute the ha lo of the Galaxy. The upper bounds extend to a mass range of up to sim ilar to 1 TeV, which was never analyzed in previous indirect searches.